4-H Club Machine Magicians – Champions And More

The Dallas County 4-H club Machine Magicians joined more than 100 students in the First Lego League regional qualifying competition on Sunday, December 17th at Johnston High School.

Teams are required to build robotic machines from Legos to perform pre-determined missions and are judged on their robot game, the robot design, their core values (team work) and the project.

The project is an innovative solution to a real life problem pertaining to the theme, which is Hydrodynamics this year. Machine Magicians won Champion and the Global Innovation Award for the research that pertains to their project.

The Dallas County 4-H club is led by Rebecca and Cliff Smith. They have been meeting for 3 years. “The kids have been working hard since the beginning of September and seeing their faces when the awards were announced was priceless!” said leader Rebecca Smith.

Teams that performed well on Sunday will advance on to the state competition at Iowa State University on January 14th.

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Front Row: Bryson Smith, Sydney Kuhse, Addison Kuonen, Owen Embree and Kaylin Dains Middle Row: Tate Hook, Brady Gustafson, Sam Peters, Tom Hook Back Row: Cliff and Rebecca Smith

Dallas County ISU Extension Office
28059 Fairground Road
Adel, Iowa 50003
Phone: (515) 993-4281
Fax: (515) 993-1027
Website: www.extension.iastate.edu/dallas
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